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| J&K Admin’s hasty decisions render local engineers jobless | | After abolishing self-help group scheme, authorities decide to engage retired engineers | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 25: Playing with the future of thousands of unemployed engineers in the Union Territory, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to enrage retired engineers in the Rural Development Department. This decision of the J&K government has evoked a reaction from the unemployed technocrats as well as from social organizations. Already Jammu and Kashmir government has rendered over 15000 engineers jobless by abolishing the Self-Help Group scheme. Now the decision of the J&K government to engage retired engineers has further compounded the woes of the unemployed engineers.
Unemployed engineerings in a press conference under the banner of All India Confederation of SC ST OBC Organisations said that there are more than 70,000 educated unemployed engineers in the UT. They either hold diplomas or degrees.
Chairman of the Confederation, R K Kalsotra regretted that after abolishing the Self-Help group, the J&K government has not taken another controversial decision against unemployed engineers.
“Engineers today are in a state of distress with no employment opportunities. In such a condition, the government aims to recruit retired engineers to fill the lacuna in Panchayat, Rural Development Department on a contractual basis. This is gross injustice towards the unemployed engineers”, he said. With thousands of jobs being wiped out amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir government had abolished a 17-year-old scheme in the year 2020 and this decision has at least 15000 engineers jobless across the J&K UT.
The Jammu and Kashmir government, with one stroke, had abolished the 'Self Help Group of Engineers Scheme' (SHGES) which was the sole bread and butter for the unemployed Engineers of the UT.
The Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir vide order No. 752-JK(GAD) of 2020, dated 10-08-2020 decided to abolish quota of the Self Help Groups of unemployed engineers in J&K UT besides merger of various engineering wings in the Public Works Department/ Jal Shakti with effect from December 1st, 2020.
This move comes six months after the Labour and Employment Department said that it was modifying the scheme guidelines in order to make them more "progressive" so as to enable SHGs to take up projects of bigger quantum.
The 'Self Help Group of Engineers Scheme' (SHGES) was launched by the J&K government in 2003 wherein 30 percent of the total works in government departments, corporations, and autonomous bodies were earmarked for SHGs of unemployed engineers as an alternative to government jobs. Engineers worked in various departments like R&B, PMGSY, PHE, PDD, REW etc will lose their job. |
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